Shari Headley
Biography
Shari Headley is an American actress who began her career in modeling before moving into television and film. Born in Queens, New York City, she joined the Ford Modeling Agency in 1984 and made her acting debut on an episode of The Cosby Show in 1985. Her breakthrough came as Lisa McDowell in the romantic comedy Coming to America (1988), the role she is best known for, which she reprised in Coming 2 America (2021). She starred as Detective Mimi Reed on the ABC soap opera All My Children from 1991 to 1994, earning two NAACP Image Award nominations, and later received another for the Fox drama 413 Hope St. Her other films include The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Johnson Family Vacation (2004), and from 2014 to 2016 she played Jennifer Sallison on The Haves and the Have Nots.
62years old
Turns 63 on July 15in 273 days
- Born Queens
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 33 years1988 to 2021
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Big break
Headley was cast as Lisa McDowell in Coming to America partly because she was relatively unknown at the time, a reason director John Landis himself gave for her selection.
A change of course
Headley studied premed in college, took drama as her minor, and acted in plays at her school before she went into acting.
Shari Headley movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Paul Bates appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Paul Bates's page
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John Amos's page
Arsenio Hall's page
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.